Newsparper box for street cars



C. D. OROURKE. NEWSPAPER BOX FOR STREET CARS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB, 23,192!- 1 ,4 1 2,41 7. Patented Apr- 11, 1922.

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INVENTOR Wfi- F '74, ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEWSPAPER BOX FOR STREET CARSJ Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 11, 1922.

Application filed February 23, 1921. Serial No. 447,008.

To all 2071 0722, it may concern Be it known that I, Ciiminxrl). C ourns, a citizen of the United States, re. ing at Daytom in the county of h lontgomery and State of Ohio, have invented a new and use ful Improvement in Newspaper Boxes for Street al-s, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide for use in street cars, a box from which a newspaper may be withdrawn by a passen 'er upon the deposit of a coin or coins representing the price of said paper, in a separate compartment in the box. Many passengers riding to and from their homes on street cars, board them at places where newspapers cannot be secured. For them my box is a special convenience, for it enables them to read while they ride, and at the same time permits the newspaper publisher to dispose of his papers at less cost than by. newsboy or. carrier. The box may be mounted at any place in the car that makes it readily accessible to the incoming or outgoing passengers.

(Ether important and incidental objects will be brought-out in the following speciii- Cation, and particularly set forth in the sub- 0 icd claims. I

in the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front elevational view of my box for street cars. Figure 2 is a longitudinal section taken through the same on the line aa of Figure 1. And Figure 3 is a per spective view of the interior of a street car, showing my box mounted near the exit door.

Throughout the specification and drawings, similar reference characters denote corresponding parts.

In a detailed description of the preferred form of embodiment of my device, the numeral 1 designates a box preferably constructed of metal. The box has a preferably rectangular front wall 2 that may contain any suitable legends, such as those shown on it in Figures 1 and 3. The rear wall 2-3 of the box is also rectangular in shape, and rises a substantial distance above the horizontal plane of the tsp of the front wall The box has a flat bottom a. and side walls 5, 5 whose top edges incline downwardly from he top of the rear wall 3 of the box to the top of its front wall 2. (See Figure 8 The box is divided into a newspaper receiving compartment and a coin receiving compartment as follows:

Set adjacent one side wall 5 of the box, upon the bottom l between its front and rear walls 2 and 3 respectively, is a partition piece 6 having a rightnngled top part 7 whose outer edge portions are soldered or otherwise secured to the side, front and end walls surrounding it.

The space in the box 1 between the outer face of the partition 6 and the opposite side wall 5, is adapted to receive newspapers folded upon themselves as shown in Figure Each newspaper projects a suliicient distance above the front wall 2 of the box to be readily accessible for withdrawal therefrom by a passenger who, in payment therefor, will drop the necessary coin or coins through a chute S that is set within a hole in the right-angled top portion 7 of the partition 6. These coins will then drop through the space between the inner face of the partition 6 and the adjacent wall 5, into a mall drawer 9, which rests upon rails 10 mount-ed on the bottom 4.- of the box. This drawer may be readily moved over these rails into and out of the lower portion of the coin receiving compartment, through an opening in the lower right hand corner of the front wall 2 of the box, and locked in its innermost or coin-receiving position by a key 11 that is insertible in a lock 12 in the front portion 13 of the drawer. By unlocking it, the drawer 9 may be withdrawn periodically from the box to remove the coins that have accumulated therein.

To prevent the coins from falling between the sides of the drawer 9 and the sides of the coin receiving compartment, curveddcflecting strips 1a are provided, one of which is soldered to the partition 6, another to the side wall and another to the rear wall 3 above the drawer, to direct the coins thereto. (See Figures 1 and 2).

By means of screws 15 passed through holes in the top portion of the rear wall 3 of the box, the latter may beiirmly secured to the frame 16 of a street car in any position which will permit the ready removal of the newspapers from said box by the passengers. Qther suitable means. however, may be provided for mounting the box in a street car without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having described my invention, I claim: 1. A box adapted to be mounted within a street car, comprising a bottom and four walls, a partition between the front and rear walls and near one of the side walls, dividing said box into a widenewspaper holding compartment and a narrow coin receiving compartment, and a drawer movable through an opening inthe front wall of the box, into the bottom of the coin receiving compartment thereof.

2. A box adapted to be mounted within a street car, comprising a bottom and four walls, a partition between the front and rear walls and near one of the side walls, dividing said box into a newspaper holding compartment and a coin receiving compartment, right-angled top on said partition engaging the adjacent side wall, and the front and rear walls, and a chute in a hole 20 in said partition top through which coins:

may be dropped into the compartment below; for the purpose specified.

.3. A box adapted to be mounted within a street car, having a newspaper holding com- 25' CLEMENT D. otaouaxn.

lVitness HOWARD S. SMITH. 

